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At an earlier Awakening, she had decided that reality was whatever happened, whatever she perceived.
She did not want to be any closer to him. She had not known what held her back before. Now she was certain it was his alienness, his difference, his literal unearthliness. She found herself still unable to take even one more step toward him.
Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable.
Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it.”
She was retreating into her cage—like a zoo animal that had been shut up for so long that the cage had become home.
“Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
“We’re an adaptable species,” she said, refusing to be stopped, “but it’s wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it.”
You shouldn’t get so wrapped up in doubting me that you ignore the things you see me do.
